Military

DATE=03/11/03

TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT

TITLE= ISRAEL PALESTINIANS (S)

NUMBER=2-300541

BYLINE= LARRY JAMES

DATELINE=JERUSALEM

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INTRO: One Israeli soldier and a Palestinian were killed in separate clashes, overnight, in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. V-O-A's Larry James has the latest on the violence in this report from Jerusalem.

TEXT: Israel Radio says an army patrol was ambushed by gunmen on the road between Hebron and the Jewish settlement, Kiryat Arba, wounding one soldier.

Four more Israeli troops were shot as they arrived at the scene. One later died. A bulldozer was then brought in to demolish the building where the gunmen were thought hiding.

Israeli forces say they also destroyed the Hebron home of one of the gunmen who killed two Israelis in an attack in Kiryat Arba, Friday.

In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians say one person was killed and three others wounded after about 20 Israeli tanks entered Karara, in the Gaza Strip.

Also on Monday, Israeli troops withdrew from areas they occupied in the northern Gaza Strip, following a Wednesday suicide bombing in Haifa that killed 17 people.

Israeli Army Radio reports 19 Palestinians were arrested in other operations, across the West Bank. (signed).

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